Ben Sims & Giles Armstrong Saturday March 15th at The Hub Temple Bar

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Collective-Music & Shake Present

Ben Sims(3 Hour set)&
Giles Armstrong (EC)

The Hub - Temple Bar - Dublin 2
Doors 11 - Till Late


Ben Sims had his first decks at age ten. Schooled on mix tapes by the likes
of Bambaata, DJ Cheese and Froggy, and with his musical roots in reggae,
funk, disco, electro, rare groove and hip-hop, by his mid teens he was
spinning at after-hours 'blues' houses and a few years later came the acid
house explosion with pirate radio and clubs. Skip forward over 15 years and
you¹ll find he¹s one of the UK¹s biggest techno exports and a much in demand
producer.

Ben has been involved in running 9 labels, a couple of which are on hold at
present (Theory, Killabite, Hardgroove, Native, Ingoma, Symbolism, Assembly,
KB Records inc, Split Music), each one with a distinctive sound, ranging
from hardgroovin¹ and funk driven techno and house that is the trademark of
his DJ sets, via tribal, to melodic electronica. In a genre that propagates
sound-a-likes, Ben Sims productions have gained widespread attention, and
feature regularly in the boxes of his own personal heroes like Derrick May,
Kevin Saunderson, Jeff Mills and Rolando, whilst also attracting crossover
appeal from the likes of Carl Cox etc. He has remixed Jeff Mills, Green
Velvet, Blake Baxter, DJ Funk, Marco Bailey, Chris Liebing, Adam Beyer plus
many more and has had his tracks and remixes featured on mix cds by Robert
Hood, Francois Kevorkian, DJ Rush, Joey Beltram, Dave Clarke, Umek, Luke
Slater, Sven Vath, Richie Hawtin and hundreds more.

The past 10 years have seen Ben constantly touring and tearing up
dancefloors at legendary clubs & parties like- Liquid room, Tokyo, Sonar,
Barcelona, Limelight. NYC, Rex, Paris, Zouk, Singapore, I love Techno, Gent,
Tresor, Berlin, Awakenings, Amsterdam and Atomic jam, Birmingham plus
hundreds of others with his tight, energetic and skilful brand of 3 deck
wizardry. Add this to the 6 deck ROKU sets with Mark Broom, recent ventures
into promoting with both the Retro_vert and Split parties causing a storm in
London, a monthly internet radio show presented with Alex Downey and a new
mix cd lined up for the Slovenian based Matrix series, plus the FREQUENCY 7
dex, fx and laptop shows with Birmingham's Surgeon, pushing the boundaries
of DJ sets or as part of the ESSEX RASCALS with Tony Anderson, Mark Broom
and Paul Mac dropping everything from House to Funk to Disco, The illusive
classics remixing duo KILLA PRODUCTIONS again with Paul Mac and even plans
for a disco re-edit project, there's certainly no sign of things slowing
down anytime soon for Mr Sims.

2008 UPDATE:
ESCAPISM PT2 MIX CD OUT NOW
NEW SPLIT RADIO SHOW FEB 2008
ESSEX RASCALS DEBUT RELEASE AND PODCAST MARCH 2008
NEW BATCH OF THEORY RELEASES FROM MARCH 2008
SPLIT PARTY LONDON 28TH MARCH 2008
RELAUNCH OF HARDGROOVE LABEL APRIL 2008
NEW BATCH OF SYMBOLISM RELEASES FROM MAY 2008
SPLIT PARTY LONDON 30TH MAY 2008

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Tickets are now on sale from Ticketmaster www.ticketmaster.ie

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You can catch Ben next Thursday night speaking with John Gibbons on Club Educate, John should also be playing a fresh mix from the man himself and have some Tickets to give away too.
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